Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, June 14, 1913, Page 7

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Show Cases aad Fixtures, Piate and Window GQlam D STANDARD SEATS. for Schools, Churehes aad Terra Cotta Roofing Tile. Geed Red Building Brisk lots for prompt deliveries. Relaforeing Steel. Get our prices before Wuying. 3 204 Twi, Street = E & CO. Tampgag Florida W A e t had taken her position for which certainly were no discredit to | THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAKFL/ND, FLA, JUNE 14, 1918, WALSER'S 0LD CLOCK, It Ran for Years, but All Was, Forgotten When It Suddenly Stopped. By HAROLD CARTER. The old clockmaker was seated in his office, his head upon his hands, his| elbows on his desk, pondering. He oc- | cupied a tiny office in an old-fashioned | part of New York, downtown, and he | had sat there for a great part of each | day since he came to America fifty years before, bringing with him the | skill of twelve generations of Swiss clockmakers. Walser's clocks never varied by more than five minutes a ! year. Great, old-fashioned grandfa- ther's clocks they were, and because the modern fashion is for cheap and gaudy things, he sold only to a few old-fashioned customers, and his whole stock was stored in the small ware- house and workehop at the back of his office, But he had hoped to hand down the bueiness to his successors—yes, he had hoped that the tradition would not die out with him, And he had driven Ernst, his only son, his only child, out of his home for ever. Ernst was the last of the Walsers, and with his action he had effectively cut himself off from all the generations that were to come. How foolish his quarrel had been! It was about a girl whom Ernst wanted to marry, and because he had not told his father all about it old Walser had taken unbrage. “Who is she?” he asked angrily. And Ernst anewered that she was a domes- DAY DS ~ /] wafrens 8hook His Fist at the Old Clock. tic servant. Then the old man's anger flared out, for the Walsers traced their descent from princes and Walser had mixed go little with his kind that the old traditions lingered. If he had Leen less angry and Ernst less proud he would have learned that Elsa was studying social science and reasons her. But the embittered old man was not in any mood to listen to reason, nor Ernst to explain. Old Walser turned to his son. He pointed to an old clock which had ticked away the hours minute by minute ever since he had brought it to America. “Ernst,” he eald hoarsely, “that clock was made by my father for his serene highness the prince of Lutter- ling. My father was once engaged to marry the prince’s daughter. She died, but the match was never considered unequal. The Walsers have been a proud old family though they are clock- makers. And you—you—you are go- ing to marry a servant. “Well, marry her, but from this mo- ment you are no longer a Walser. I disown you by the memory of my fa- ther.” He pointed still to the time- plece. “When that clock, which my father made in 1833, goes wrong by as much as ten minutes in a day, I will | ask you to come back to me,” he said. “Now go!” And Ernst went. The old clock never varied by as much as a minute a day. choly tick was wearing the old man’s heart away. He moaned in his misery | as he sat at his desk. How gladly he would have had his son back, eervant | wife and all! If only he had not been 80 hasty! A good boy, too—Ernst had always been a good son to him, He had never | thwarted or crossed him until that | turious quarrel began. And now Ernst was starving in a garret in Washing- ton square—so much he had learned. And he was married to his servant wife. Their lives were abjectly miser- | able, for the boy was working as a shipping clerk at ten dollars a week! He swung round in his chair and shook his fist at the old clock. “You swine, you dog, you pig!” he shouted. “Can’t you go wrong just for this once, so that I can keep my word and ask my son to come back to me?” He swept his fingers across the glass, and the clock ticked heavily in an- swer. And then a wonderful thing hap- pened. A sudden whirring sound was heard, and the hands began racing furiously round and round the old Roman figures that marked the face of the dial. Round and round they ran, once, twice, and now so fast that Wal- ser could not distinguish anything ex- cept a blur. And then they stopped | and the old clock stood still at half past four. Its melan- | That was the precise time at which Ernst put on his hat and left the house. The old man fell back in his chair and stared in astonishment at this| phenomenon. Presently, when curiosity overcame his terror, he opened tha cace and | peered in. And swiftly enough the | cause was revealed. Wedged tightly into the mechanism was a clockwork mouse. . It must have laid for years unno- ticed inside the case, until it had been jarred down by the tapping of his fin- gers; its cogs had become entangled with the cogs of the mechanism, and, happening to be wound up, the clock- work of the mouse had gone off, send- ing the hands flying round the dial till i it ran down. Walser drew out the mouse and looked at it. It was a rusty anclent toy such as is retailed upon the etreets for a nickel, or perhaps a dime, Half of the tail was gone, and the beady eyes stared out of a battered and moldy face. Then the old man remem- bered. Years before he had brought that mouse home for his son Ernst, in the days when he was a baby, playing about the floor of the nursery. The child must have placed his toy inside the old clock and forgotten all about it. Waleer rose up solemnly and put o his hat. He turned to the clock and his voice was choking with emotion. “I know ncw,” he said, “that this is @ judgment and a miracle in one.” And he thought of his father, the old clock- maker, and how he had been wont to tell him that the good deeds which are done always bring results, even in other lives. He did not doubt that because his father had been an hon- est craftsman, his handiwork had borne witness to him, for his own sake. Ten minutes later he got off a street car at Washington square. He ar rived at a dingy, shabby house, and, scanning the list of names on the un- painted lette. boxes, discovered that of his son. Walser made his way up to the top floor and knocked. A comely young woman came to the door. “You are—?" queried Walser. “I am Mrs Walser,” she answered in & very sweet voice. “You have busi- ness with m) husband?” “You are my son's wife?” shouted the old mar “Why, 1 i thought—" And suddenly he flung his arms about her anu drew her to him and kissed her. Aud at the audible sound! Ernst came to the door, looking shab- by and thin, but with fire in his eye and fists doubled to repell this assault upon the sanctity of his home. Seeing his father he halted dead. “Come here, my boy,” cried the old man. “It's all forgotten—the clock ran down. Come home with me and I will tell you all about it.” (Copyright 1913, hy W. G. Chapman.) CHINA’S APPEAL FOR PRAYER “Can’t Do Harm; May Do Good,” an Official of the New Cabinet Has Announced. thought—I The Chinese cabinet has issued an appeal for the prayers of Christians | for the national assembly and the new- | ly established government, A Chinese officlal discussing the notification said: “The majority of Intellectual Chi TR TN, LAKE PHARMACY (iwialuinlalels st ot V-Vwe Have Tampa Ice Cream We Take Orders From Anywhere in the City tmeansme. .Prompt Delivery.. DR. GAMUEL F. 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P nese incline today toward Christian- ity or free thought. Many members of the newly elected national assem- | bly both in the senate and the house of representatives, are Christians and there is every indication that Chris- tlanity will spread still more rapidly when the new government has its edu- cational and social projects in work- | Ing order. . . . The non-Christian Chinese officlal takes the same view as the Roman | pro-consul that such prayers can do no harm and may do good, in addl- tion to eecuring the support of a pow- erful section of the people. But the conviction is galning ground that {if Christianity {8 to become a vital fac- tor in Chinese national life, it must be free from foreign control, for it has al- ways been against the Christian as a foreigner, and not as the upholder of | @ new creed, that Chinese resentment has been shown in the past. 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